{"product_id":"the-oxford-handbook-of-black-horror-film-9780197624807","title":"The Oxford Handbook of Black Horror Film","description":"Since the release of Jordan Peele's Academy Award-winning horror hit \u003cem\u003eGet Out\u003c\/em\u003e (2017), interest in Black horror films has erupted. This renewed intrigue in stories about Black life, history, culture, or \"Blackness\" has taken two forms. First, the history and politics of race have been centered in the horror genre. Second, Black horror has become an increasingly visible topic in mainstream discourses with scholars, critics, and fans contending that Black horror is seeing its so-called renaissance. However, critical attention to Blackness in horror has primarily focused on the U.S. and western world, despite Black stories having featured prominently in the genre-as actors, screenwriters, directors, producers-globally and across cultures. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe essays in this handbook explore global Black horror cinema by interrogating Blackness and the ways in which it manifests in films across the diaspora and around the world. Chapters pose and answer questions including how taxonomies of race are presented; who is considered \"Black?\"; how is Blackness constructed in the culture in which it is produced and\/or distributed?; How is horror defined and represented globally and\/or culturally?; and what textual role does Blackness play in horror? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSophisticated, innovative, argument-driven research that brings to bear the most enlightened reflections upon Black horror's place in the world drives this handbook. Significantly, \u003cem\u003eThe Oxford Handbook of Black Horror Film \u003c\/em\u003epresents expansive scholarship about Blackness, expanding the ways in which researchers, critics, and fans see and make meaning of Black experiences. In this volume, leading scholars from around the world contribute provocative, worthy examinations of the popular genre of horror in all its rich and empowering possibility.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRobin R. Means Coleman\u003c\/strong\u003e is Vice President and Associate Provost of Institutional Diversity and Inclusion and the Ida B. Wells and Ferdinand Barnett Professor of Communication Studies at Northwestern University. She is the author of \u003cem\u003eHorror Noire: A History of Black American Horror from the 1890s to Present, \u003c\/em\u003e 2nd ed.; \u003cem\u003eHorror Noire: Blacks in American Horror Films from the 1890s to Present\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eAfrican-American Viewers and the Black Situation Comedy: Situating Racial Humor\u003c\/em\u003e. She is co-author of \u003cem\u003eThe\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eBlack Guy Dies First: Black Horror from Fodder to Oscar and Intercultural Communication for Everyday Life\u003c\/em\u003e, editor of \u003cem\u003eSay It Loud! African American Audiences, Media, and Identity\u003c\/em\u003e, and co-editor of \u003cem\u003eFight the Power! The Spike Lee Reader\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNovotny Lawrence\u003c\/strong\u003e is the Director of the Black Film Center \u0026amp; Archive and Associate Professor of Cinema and Media Studies at Indiana University. He is the author of \u003cem\u003eBlaxploitation Films of the 1970s: Blackness and Genre\u003c\/em\u003e, the editor of \u003cem\u003eDocumenting the Black Experience: Essays on African-American History, Culture, and Identity in Non-Fiction Films\u003c\/em\u003e, the co-editor of \u003cem\u003eBeyond Blaxploitation\u003c\/em\u003e, and the editor-in-chief of \u003cem\u003eThe Journal of Popular Culture\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50929132667154,"sku":"9780197624807","price":186.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_ed491220-2107-4f5c-aa1d-599230451d36.jpg?v=1739033283","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-oxford-handbook-of-black-horror-film-9780197624807","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}